Riesling Enkircher Steffensberg | Villa Huesgen

DENOMINATION: Mosel QbA
TYPE: white
GRAPE: riesling 100%
ORIGIN: Germany, Mosel
AGEING POTENTIAL: 5-8 years
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 8-10° C
GLASS: medium-sized white wine glass
ALCOHOL CONTENT: 12% vol.
FORMAT: 75 cl

THE WINE
TECHNICAL SPECIFICS

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NOTES BY OUR SOMMELIERS

👁 a beautiful bright straw yellow;

👃🏻 the nose offers a broad and intense bouquet, with notes reminiscent of ripe fruit and wet stone

👄 on the palate it is soft, with a rich and intense sip, with a long persistence. A very pleasant explosion of aromas and flavours.



FOOD PAIRINGS

A Riesling with great minerality, excellent with first and second courses of fish, shellfish and white meat.



WINE-MAKING AND REFINEMENT

A Mosel Riesling QbA from the Enkircher Steffensberg vineyard, from 100-year-old vines with very low yields (Alte Reben). A powerful and intense white, rich and with heady aromas and rare persistence.



YOU WILL LOVE IT FOR...
its character.



ORIGIN
TERROIR
If there is one wine-growing region that has made Germany famous throughout the world, it is certainly the Mosel. Also known as Mosel-Saar-Ruwer and the home of Riesling, the Moselle not only offers one of the world's most fascinating wine-growing landscapes due to its often difficult environmental conditions, but also represents an avant-garde area in terms of production, which is challenging the German wine conception, thanks to a movement of young producers who have invested in an alternative approach in the vineyard and cellar. It is precisely here that Germany saw the beginnings of its wine-growing, thanks to the Romans who planted vines for the production of wine for the troops, since transport from Italy would have been too expensive.

Even today, the best wines in the entire country still come from this area. The continental climate and cold temperatures meant that the best vineyards were located close to the river - a fact that prevents frost, releasing accumulated heat in the colder seasons. This is precisely what makes the Moselle vineyard one of the most fascinating in the world, with steep, river-side soils and vertiginous slopes that undoubtedly place the viticulture of this area among those defined as heroic. In this fascinating land wrested from the rock, even the soil reveals a unique nature: on the one hand, the volcanic composition, which has also allowed the maintenance of free-standing vines, and on the other, the schistous stratification of different types of slate, capable of storing heat that is returned to the plants.



WINERY

Villa Huesgen is located in the heart of the Mosel, Germany: we are in one of the most important wine-growing regions in the world and one of the largest.

Characterised by steep, terraced vineyards overlooking the river, it offers wines of great value, elegant and mineral, due to the soil rich in grey and blue slate, which captures the sun's rays, and to the favourable microclimate due to the marked temperature fluctuations.

The winery is very old, having owned properties in the area since the 18th century, with Johannes Huesgen buying the first vineyards on the Moselle. Generation after generation led to the winery of today, managed by Adolph Huesgen VIII.

Their history is mainly related to riesling. The winery has always concentrated solely on this grape variety, the Moselle being the ideal terroir for bringing out its varietal characteristics.

The vineyards of Villa Huesgen are located in the area called Trabener Würzgarten and Enkircher Steffensberg. Harvesting is by hand, with selection of the bunches of grapes: the aim is maximum quality.

The winery produces exceptional Rieslings with passion and great respect for the terroir: their wines are all characterised by a very strong personality and a distinct territorial imprint.